Tracking Data Growth Across the Continent

TRACKING  DATA  GROWTH  ACROSS  THE  CONTINENT

Chaw  Kiang  (CK)Head  of  Sales  and  Business  Development  Asia  Pacific

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Asian Overview• Generally NSP interconnectivity occurs off-continent• Lots of hairpinning through LA• Lots of buying transit in the US west coast

• Incumbents starting to move away from traditional Providers• Sprint, Verizon, etc.

• Select NSP peering connectivity within the region• KDDI & NTT

• Value providers like Hurricane Electric and Vocus growing and driving pricing down

Map courtesy of The Stack

CDNs Following the Population not Geography

European CDN Performance

Asian Wholesale

• Wholesale IP transit 50% provided from offshore

• Regional players continue making steady progress

• Major Changes:• Hurricane Electric #10 > #6

• #5 > #7 all very close (59.8% > 56.5% of #1 size)

• Chinese networks mostly growing internally to China

• Level 3 #6 > #8

Regional Wholesale Differences

JapanMiddle East

China

South Asia East Asia

Many similar sized blue bars = competitive market

Airtel vs. Global Cloud Xchange (Reliance)

• Airtel larger in IP transit and more geographically diverse

• GCX more Asia focused and better peered

PCCW vs. Pacnet (Now part of Telstra but not yet AS 4637)

• PCCW perhaps a little closer to being Tier-1• PCCW about twice the weighted route size

of Pacnet

Internet Performance from KL

• Mostly <= 150mS to Asia, slightly more to Oceania• Worse to the Middle East, Europe and the Americas• Central Asia connected via Moscow

Seoul to KL via LA in 330mS

Hairpin via LA

Satellite Activity

• Satellite still very attractive away from the population centers

• O3B has attracted a number of in the last 18 months

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